FORERUNNER in a Sentence

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1. She is a forerunner of the modern women's movement.
2. Doug Engelbart helped launch the Internet's forerunner, the Arpanet.
3. They were buzzards, the vultures of the west, whose coming is the forerunner of death.
4. Germany's Green party was said to be the forerunner of environmental parties throughout Europe.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORERUNNER
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forerunner
 n.  predecessor; one who goes before or announces the coming of another
Classic Sentence:
1  They were buzzards, the vultures of the west, whose coming is the forerunner of death.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
2  I have here in front of me these singular productions, at which one might smile, had they not proved themselves to be the forerunners of so terrible a tragedy.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
Example Sentence:
1  Germany's Green party was said to be the forerunner of environmental parties throughout Europe.
2  She is a forerunner of the modern women's movement.
3  Doug Engelbart helped launch the Internet's forerunner, the Arpanet.